Knife Witch
by Susan diRende
"You have to root for this sharp young woman with knives stashed in
her hair as she outwits every power ranged against her, from
small-town bullies and corrupt witch councils to far greater
natural—and supernatural—entities."
—Lesley Wheeler, author of Unbecoming and
Poetry’s Possible Worlds
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Numinous Stones
by Holly Lyn Walrath
From Elgin Award winning author Holly Lyn Walrath, a haunting
collection of poetry about grief and the sacred that digs deep beyond
a fairytale world into the grave. Told in the circular pantoum form,
Numinous Stones is a poetic graveyard littered with horror—from
sentient scarecrows to silent skeletons to scorched sacred spaces. As
each line repeats, new meaning gleams like bones unearthed in a
shattered realm of monsters, dark forests, and dusty ghosts.
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To the Woman in the Pink Hat
by LaToya Jordan
Jada Morris was the fierce and resilient leader of a social movement
against the theft of young women’s uteruses before she committed a
violent crime. Now, in 2040, the 24-year-old is serving time at The
Center for Future Leaders, an alternative to prison for young leaders
who committed crimes as a response to gender-based violence. The Center
supposedly provides training, education, therapy, and reduced sentences
to the convicted in order to return them to their communities as
leaders. But as Jada begins her therapy, she realizes all is not as it
seems, and memory is thorny at best. Can she trust her android therapist
and the terrifying path down which she’s taking her? And what will she
find at the other end?
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Our Fruiting Bodies
by Nisi Shawl
Our Fruiting Bodies collects stories of old growth and fresh decay, of stubborn rebirth and the faint but nonimaginary paths connecting life and nonlife. From the sharp, sweet confessional of their Peter Pan-inspired “Awfully Big Adventure,” through the melting ambitextualities of “Just Us”—from the early, dizzy-eyed quest at the heart of “Looking for Lilith” through the newly unfurling tendrils that pierce the grounds of “I Being Young and Foolish,” Nisi Shawl’s search for the power of fiction’s truth puts pure, precious gifts right here, right in your hands, ripe and ready for reading.
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Bilabials
by Cesi Davidson
“Cesi Davidson has collected for us here a wondrous trip around,
through, and within the heart. These short journeys into the emotions
of those who love and those who do not add to our understanding of
what love is and what love isn’t. When you laugh, cry, and sigh with
recognition, you will be reminded that you are not only a witness to,
but also a participant in the emotional life of all those around
you.”
—Celeste Rita Baker, World Fantasy Award Winner, author of Back,
Belly and Side
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Queering SF
by Ritch Calvin
The essays contained in Queering SF provide an introduction to some of
the shades of queer in SF writing. SF is not a monolith. Queer SF is
not, either. Writers of queer SF approach it in a variety of ways,
with a variety of end goals. The essays here aim to introduce readers
to a wide range of writers and texts, some familiar, some
unfamiliar. These essays demonstrate some of the ways in which queer
SF pushes at the very generic norms of SF. The idea of SF, the
characteristics of SF, the content of SF have all been shaped (a) in a
particular place and time, and (b) in one's own reading
experience. Many of these writers want to challenge what SF looks like
and does.
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News from Aqueduct Press
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Aqueduct authors will be reading from their work at WisCon. These will
include Susan diRende, Arrate Hidalgo, Nancy Jane Moore, Beth
Plutchak, and L. Timmel Duchamp.
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Our Fruiting Bodies
by Nisi Shawl
and Queering SF by
Ritch Calvin are on
Locus's Recommended Reading List
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From Voyages Unreturning
by Deborah L. Davitt
From Voyages Unreturning tells the tale of a woman who sought escape
from her own life. Skimming through time and space at light-speed, she
comes to realize that she’s left everything that she loved behind. She
forges a bond with a living ship, and together, they dare to dream
that life can be more than perpetual loss....
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Apollo Weeps
by Xian Mao
Apollo Weeps is a love letter to theater and the twisting plots
of Stephen Sondheim musicals. It is a modern adaptation of The Phantom
of the Opera, as well as a meditation on race in America: Owl, a
transracial Chinese adoptee, uncovers a story about a Black actor in
the Midwest and the generational trauma his descendants face.
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When Home, No Need to Cry
by Erin K. Wagner
Wagner collects 10 speculative shorts loosely connected by a quietly
brooding aesthetic and themes of how humanity is changed by brushes
with the supernatural or extraterrestrial.... Wagner’s writing seats
itself deeply in each individual narrator’s perspective and explores
the tension between individual agency and the undeniable pull of the
strange. Readers are sure to be enthralled.
—Publishers Weekely
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Forkpoints
by Sheila Finch
Nebula Award winner Finch (Reading the Bones) delivers an
impressive, career-spanning collection celebrating the power a single
decision holds to change the shape of the world. Some of the 12
stories focus in on those pivotal moments; the gripping “Not This
Tide” leaps between the inexplicable supernatural experiences of a
girl and her father in WWII England, and the year 2035, in which the
now-elderly woman is a renowned world peace activist. Others place the
fateful decision in the background and chart the consequences, like
the wistful “The Old Man and C,” which imagines a world where Albert
Einstein followed his talent for violin instead of physics. Fans of
Finch’s Xenolinguist stories will enjoy encountering the author at her
lyrical best in “Sequoia Dreams,” about alien visitors who have a
profound ecological message to convey, and “Czerny at Midnight,” in
which a marine biologist’s autistic son communicates with an octopus
through music...
—Publishers Weekly
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Cabinet of Wrath
by Tara Campbell
Deep in the recesses of childhood memory, your old playthings
await. Listen: don’t you hear them crying out for you? Come take a
peek inside the Cabinet of Wrath to find out what really happens when
toys go missing and the stark decision they must make if they ever
want to go home again. Discover what doll heads really think about
being separated from their bodies. Follow a skull-and-bones novelty
ring as it assembles a full body for itself, bit by grisly bit, and
learn how loving your doll too much can lead to grave
consequences. Open the door to these fabulist tales of toys and
vengeance for a playtime you’ll never forget.
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Can't Find My Way Home
by Gwynne Garfinkle
"Garfinkle catches exactly the passionate and reckless moods of the
anti-Vietnam War movement among young people in those years, the
deadly naiveté, delight in rebellion, and idealistic misunderstanding
of where events just had to go from there…. Writing a really good
ghost story is a lot harder than it looks. But Garfinkle pulls it off
with élan and produces a wonderful story about lives unlived, for one
reason or another, shifting perspectives, what (if anything) we owe
our dead, and how we reflect each other, hold each other back, and
provide the take-off for others’ sprints into maturity."
—Suzy McKee Charnas, author of The Vampire Tapestry and
The Holdfast Chronicles
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